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The roman emperor is probably an old man allready, far into his 50ies or even 60ies, and thats a biblical age, for a civilisation living in a mix of middleages and postapocalypse. Even if he wanted to, he coudnt... So he let her go. Because he is a nice guy.

Felicia, go for it

I have a damn feeling that the Emperor is younger than we thought and he's a harem male lead that raised Rio's flags.

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What the hell?!!? Are they Zentradi to stop the eminent fight to appreciete the damn song from the trumpet?I wouldn't, i don't like trumpets, I would understand if it actually was the cease fire code >_>

As said Amazing Grace before is the unifying music of the international forces during the old era. Hence why Tank-kun has a copy. Hence why Princess Illiya and Aisha can play it.

Rome and Helvetia are descendants of those surviving international forces that integrated into Europe.

An amazing episode. After all the spectulation, the first episode's legend turned out to be quite misleading, but it gives a good theme of progress and finding truth together. Noel and Ashia (angel Aisha!) were amazingly powerful; the way Aisha pointed at Noel seemed to challenge her to redeem herself and break out of her despair.

Colonel Hopkins got a bit more development than I expected. It seems he was unwlling to massacre his own countrymen, even if he felt no qualms about slaughtering Romans. 'Rome must be destroyed!" almost echoes the Roman senator Cato's 'Carthenage must be destroyed', for any classics geeks. I was pretty surprised that Hopkins got a gun to his head so early on; it shows how Felicia can't stand the idea of another war after all she's been through.

Wonderfully tender moment between Felicia and Kuraha, when the latter broke down; and Kanata doing her Lynn Minmay act held me spellbound.

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It's interesting you guys mentioned Amazing Grace and how it's played at funerals. It's a "sad" piece of music. The planet is dying. Chunks of it are dead in this universe. The music is fitting for the post apocalyptic setting.

Amazing Grace is at least as happy as its sad; don't forget the lyrics are about a soul being saved from purposelessness and fear.

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The roman emperor is probably an old man allready, far into his 50ies or even 60ies, and thats a biblical age, for a civilisation living in a mix of middleages and postapocalypse. Even if he wanted to, he coudnt... So he let her go. Because he is a nice guy.

Felicia, go for it

Rio may well have married the Emperor by the end, but they don't actually need to live together, since its a political marriage. The Emperor either has his two previous wives to keep him company or some other woman on the side he actually cares for, similar to Rio's mum and the king of Helvatia. Indeed, if bossy, strong-willed women aren't his type, the Emperor might be quite glad to get some distance away from Rio.

So Rio coming back is excusable, but Felicia not hugging her at the end isn't.

The plot seems thoroughly wrapped up, and the origin of the angel could well remain a matter of myth. Something to show what the characters go on to do in the future would be nice, though, as well as how the decay of the world is getting on.

If you have the sense or feeling that modern anime are heading this way, I don’t think not. Yes, anime adapted from source material can be viewed by some as that following quote I have used in a editorial against Miyazaki’s views* on modern anime, but a effort to change this tend comes in from of TV Tokyo, Aniplex and A-1 Pictures, called the Anime no Chikara project, or The Strength of Anime is a project where they produce completely original Anime and broadcast it. The first project they done with the project is Sora no Woto. People when they first saw the first shots of it accused it being a copy of K-ON! and that it’s going to be a moeblob show since the characters looks vastly similar. That wasn’t the case at all when I was blown away by the first few episodes of Sora no Woto and I liked the story and the setting. Hardly any moe at all, besides that Episode 8.

With original productions, you are left with a clean slate of expectations. With adaptations, the viewers expect that it will be close to the original source material and when they find out that they changed or left something out or that the series has too many fillers, they will start complaining and drive their expectations down. I had no expectations when I first watch this production and it leave me a very good impression, allowing one to have an open mind. Original productions, you don’t know what will happen next or expect how well it is going to be until the next episode, which makes people eager to want the next episode soon. Also, they allow the producers to become more creative and original as opposed to adaptions, where you have to stick to the source material and you are pretty much limited on what new characters or plot you can put into the series without making the viewers angry.

Anyways, since I finished the introduction, first I’m going to focus on the story. The story is pretty deep and takes place in a town called Seize in Helvetia after the war have finished. This is where Kanata gets sent to and she has a very optimistic view about the future. As time goes on, we learn more about legends, past stories from various people and also Princess Iliya!!! The episodes that I felt that had a very good impact is Episode 3, where Kanata gets ill and we first hear “Amazing Grace”, Episode 5, where Noel, Kanata, Kureha goes onto the field trip and we are first introduced to No Man’s Land, Episode 6 is Misho’s story, Episode 7 with Filicia, getting over her loss of her friends and the first time we see Princess Iliya, Episode 9 with Klaus not disappointing Kureha by saving her and her keeping her faith in him and finally the last two episodes. “Amazing Grace” and legends are the most important and underlining of the story, which is shown throughout the season and time after time. However, with the seriousness, the happy and cheery ending theme ever gets so inappropriate that it becomes a mood whiplash, pretty much seen in Clannad After Story and Elfen Lied for examples as they used happy ending themes after a serious episode at the end of the episode. The story even after 12 episode seems that they could of gone a bit more in depth, but due to length constraints, they unable to do so which is fine… but if it was a little longer, I think the story can hold up even stronger. (Keep in mind, we are also getting 2 bonus episodes, possibly tie up loose ends.)

Music was pretty much good overall. Despite Kanata’s absolutely horrible playing in the beginning, but ended up turning out good when Amazing Grace was played in Episode 12 and it just sounded great. The opening theme, Hikari no Senritsu is really good considering how well it fits to the overall setting and story. However, even though I liked the ending theme, Girls, Be Ambitious, it became inappropriate several times after a serious scene happens towards the end and BAM! we are hit with a happy and go lucky tune… I would rather for them to use the other track, but oh well. For the background music, I have no opinion yet since the OST isn’t out yet, but I’m sure down the line, someone will review it.

Now for Characters. Yes, they look very similar to the characters from K-ON!, but I feel that they are different. Why? Kanata is not much of a moeblob and in contrast to Yui, I can’t picture that kind of behavior from her. Noel is the only character that has absolutely no relation to K-ON! (yep, they cut out Ritzu) and more like Nagato, but towards the end, she seems to have more emotion than the latter. Also, the voice acting for these characters are great… The only problems is character development, well mainly because of time constraints… I can’t complain much, but it’s worth saying they didn’t copy everything from K-ON! at all or if we did, well… who knows… From all those characters, I see Rio, Filicia and perhaps Kanata to be the strongest in terms of character development.

Overall, I think Sora no Woto is a outstanding series and I would recommend for those with a open mind. This is not K-ON! and Strike Witches smashed together, but I think with it’s strong setting, great storytelling and the eyecandy, I can say that Sora no Woto is a very interesting series that pretty much kept me watching. Hopefully, this production will encourage some more studios to start pumping out good and original Anime that can catch the viewer’s attention and keep it interesting so that it keeps the viewer watching. This pretty much proves that studios can produce original and inspiring anime if they work at it. They should use Sora no Woto as a model (but don’t copy the story/setting) and try to use the tactics used to create an original story that viewers will probably like.

* I’m no way against Miyazaki’s works at all, I think he did a good job in producing movies that I did in fact enjoyed, but I just don’t agree with any of his politics and his views on Anime

Overall Score: 9.04/10 (Score computed from a average of all the ratings of 12 episodes)

Because man outliving his 2 wives and targeting third which is at most half of his age isn't viewed good even now? Especially if he already have many children from them.

Eh, not necessarily. Historically lots of cultures have been perfectly fine with big age gaps between husbands and wives; women were often married off while in their early teens to middle aged men. And especially with political marriages. You hear all those stories of alliances being formed in ancient times where a king would send off his daughter to marry some random foreign king... I'm not saying that I think it's good, but in context, I don't think the citizens would be horrified at the idea.

In any case, even if that were so I don't think it'd make Rio a "hostage." I mean, she'd be his only wife and not just some consort, some addition to his harem. If that were the case it'd give her significant political standing rather than making her a hostage, at least that's what I think.

An amazing episode. After all the spectulation, the first episode's legend turned out to be quite misleading, but it gives a good theme of progress and finding truth together. Noel and Ashia (angel Aisha!) were amazingly powerful; the way Aisha pointed at Noel seemed to challenge her to redeem herself and break out of her despair.

Colonel Hopkins got a bit more development than I expected. It seems he was unwlling to massacre his own countrymen, even if he felt no qualms about slaughtering Romans. 'Rome must be destroyed!" almost echoes the Roman senator Cato's 'Carthenage must be destroyed', for any classics geeks. I was pretty surprised that Hopkins got a gun to his head so early on; it shows how Felicia can't stand the idea of another war after all she's been through.

Yet it has to be remembered that the Colonel HAS slaughtered Helvetians.

When they said "Rome must be destroyed!" I instantly thought about the Latin phrase "Carthago delenda est!" which translates to "Carthage must be destroyed!" Back in Roman times it was chanted by the Romans as a war call. I don't know if the script writers were intending that historic reference when they wrote it, but it's a cool thing to note how it got flipped in this instance.

I suppose the difference is, in the Vingt instance it was an uncontrollable biological weapon or something, whereas in this case he'd have had to order his men, all loyal Helvetians, to slaughter their fellow countrymen with their own hands (figuratively speaking).

Even if Hopkins was willing to kill Helvetians, it's clear that his men aren't as gung-ho about the war as he is. They'd probably disobey or turn on him if he gave the order to kill the townspeople that were blocking them.

As Noel said the bastard was laughing... The man is a psychotic monster.

If you manage to convince yourself the enemy are less than human, you can feel nothing for them while treating others normally. If Vingt was Helvetian, and Hopkins wasn't at all regretful about it being destroyed, though, he probably does have some problems.

The rogue colonel's effort to trigger war reminds me of some history I've read about how a few war-mongering middle officers maneuvered Japan into the war in China in the 1930s. I wonder how much of Sora no Woto's war story arc is allegory for that episode in Japanese history.

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The rogue colonel's effort to trigger war reminds me of some history I've read about how a few war-mongering middle officers maneuvered Japan into the war in China in the 1930s. I wonder how much of Sora no Woto's war story arc is allegory for that episode in Japanese history.

with only 6 legs the tank reminds me more of a waterbug than a spider. A lot of my questions about its ability to move about were answered though.

Especially the question as of how it can climb buildings without making them collapse under 50tons of spidertank. "Wight-Reducers". Yey! So ... err... what? Humanity develops antigravity generators, and the first thing they do is build a tank around it and start a war with heaven. /facepalm

Especially the question as of how it can climb buildings without making them collapse under 50tons of spidertank. "Wight-Reducers". Yey! So ... err... what? Humanity develops antigravity generators, and the first thing they do is build a tank around it and start a war with heaven. /facepalm

There seemed to be some kind of field cushioning the tanks impact when it landed between the two armies, showing a bit more appreciation for physics than most anime. If pre-apocalyptic society could use energy fields to disperse momentum, they probably used them for all kinds of industrial and military applications.

There seemed to be some kind of field cushioning the tanks impact when it landed between the two armies, showing a bit more appreciation for physics than most anime. If pre-apocalyptic society could use energy fields to disperse momentum, they probably used them for all kinds of industrial and military applications.

The fact that writer is aware of the square-cube law already place them a cut above the rest unlike gundam.

The only other series that is aware of it IIRC is FMP where the Behemoth needed lambda drivers to prop itself up. Where as here they have something that modifies gravity to lighten the mech.